Kanye West - Wests Double Win At Bet Awards

Rapper KANYE WEST was the big winner at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (24Jun08) - scooping two major honours.

The Gold Digger star was named Best Male hip hop star on the night, as well as picking up the gong for Best Collaboration with fellow rapper T-Pain for their Good Life track.

Young R+B hunk Chris Brown was one of the first winners of the night - he was presented with the gong for Best Male R+B Artist, and was escorted to the annual ceremony by reported beau Rihanna.

The Bajan beauty was nominated for the Best Female R+B artist award - but was beaten in the category by singing sensation Alicia Keys.

Keys also performed at the event - stunning the celebrity-studded audience when she was joined on-stage by former female groups En Vogue, TLC and SWV.

Hit beatmaker Missy Elliott was honoured in the Best Female hip hop Artist category, but was not present at the ceremony to pick up the award.

Hollywood heavyweights Halle Berry and Denzel Washington were also winners - the pair scooped the awards for Best Actress and Best Actor.

Other performers included Usher, Flo Rida and T-Pain.

The ceremony, hosted by U.S. comic D.L. Hughley, honours leading black entertainers, actors, musicians and sportstars.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Best Female R+B Artist: Alicia Keys

Best Male R+B Artist: Chris Brown

Best Group: UGK

Best Gospel Artist: Marvin Sapp

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist: Missy Elliott

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist: Kanye West

Best New Artist: The-Dream

Best Collaboration: Kanye West + T-Pain - Good Life

Video Of The Year: UGK f/Outkast, International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)
Best Video Director: Erykah Badu and Mr. Roboto

Best Actress: Halle Berry

Best Actor: Denzel Washington

Female Athlete Of The Year: Candace Parker

Male Athlete Of The Year: Kobe Bryant

Viewers' Choice: Lil Wayne, Lollipop

BETJ Award: Raheem DeVaughn

Lifetime Achievement Award: Al Green

Humanitarian Award: Quincy Jones.

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Silent Killer

   
Artist: Silent Killer

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 Outbreak (OUTBLTD028)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2

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Endura

Impulse - movie review

Self-obsessed pop star and Dancing with the Stars also-ran Willa Ford makes her debut
star turn (not counting the title role in Anna Nicole, I mean... how could you?) in Im
pulse. What must be a tragic heartbreak to Ms. Ford, the movie went straight to DVD. One
wonders, if she had known it would turn out so poorly, if she would have agreed to
spend so much time in the film with her clothes off.



There's a glimmer of cleverness in the story: Claire (Ford) finds her marriage to
her puffy, stuffy husband Jonathan (Angus Macfadyen) is starting to fade, so she's
constantly experimenting with role-playing to try to get some fire back in the sack.
One of her games is for them to pretend they don't know each other at all, which makes
for a fun roll in the hay. Claire is surprised when Jonathan shows up to meet her
on a business trip out of town, and he plays along in the hotel bar, pretending he
doesn't know who she is when she makes a pass at him. After a roll in the hay, she's
reinvigorated. She gets a strange text message and agrees to another fling. Only
later does she realize the impossible: It's not her husband at all, but a dead ringer
for him named Simon. (And of course they look alike: Macfadyen plays both characters.)



The film is doomed from the start by the obvious lack of chemistry between the 27-year-old
Ford and the 45-year-old Macfadyen (in either role). The whole "the romance is dying"
bit works better when both characters are a little more mature. Ford comes across like
she's never even had a steady boyfriend before shooting this. Macfadyen hams for
the camera on both sides of the fence. As Jonathan he plays the stereotypical cuckold
who's more concerned about the burning dinner than his half-naked wife trying to se
duce him. As Simon he embodies the goofy "who me?" character caught up in some intrigue...
only to abruptly turn into a psycho who becomes obsessed with the sexpot Claire.
Hard to blame him on that front, but the inevitable violent turn rings totally h
ollow.



Writer/director Charles T. Kanganis has a smattering of credits that range from
3 Ninjas Kick Back to Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! to six episodes of According to Jim. Non
e of that indicates someone that would have a real knack with a tricky mistaken-identity
thriller, and sure enough most of Impulse is filled with mere passing time as we
wait for Simon to show up at the next unexpected location and for Claire to wrestle
with how to break the news to Jonathan. Meanwhile, we're merely left waiting to see
when the Fatal Attraction plot points will finally take over and what creative way Kanganis
will come up with next to get Ford out of her top.

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Crystal Castles, Ting Tings Rascals to play Great Escape's Club NME

The Great Escape Festival kicks off in Brighton today (May 15) with band's playing at venues across the city - and NME will be there.

Crystal Castles and The Ting Tings are set to play Club NME at Barfly, with Black Lips and The Rascals also set to play.

The festival takes place from tonight (May 15) to Saturday (17) in Brighton.

The full Club NME at the Barfly line-up is:

May 15
The Ting Tings
Yeasayer

May 16
Black Lips
Ipso Facto

May 17
Crystal Castles
The Rascals

We will be bringing you news directly from the festival, so stay tuned to NME.COM for all the latest news.

Meanwhile Little Man Tate have confirmed themselves as last minute additions to the sold out event, playing Upstairs At The Albert tomorrow (May 16) afternoon.